"America's Best Colleges" list released by U.S. News & World Report. - UC Berkeley was ranked #1 UC Davis #42

UC Berkeley was ranked number one among public universities in the country Friday and number 21 overall, while Stanford came in fourth in the somewhat controversial "America's Best Colleges" list released by U.S. News & World Report.

Stanford trailed behind number one Princeton University, number two Harvard University and number three Yale University.

Fifth was California Institute of Technology.

UCLA was at the number 25 spot, just ahead of USC at number 27.

Other California schools in the top 50 were number 38 UC-San Diego, number 42 UC-Davis, and UC-Santa Barbara and UC-Irvine tied at number 44.